Chivvi חִוִּי

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Chivvi
חִוִּי
Transliterationchivvi
Strong's numberH2340
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a person or people
GlossHivite
Occurrences25 in 25 verses
Most frequent inExodus (7)

Chivvi (Hebrew חִוִּי, Strong's H2340) is a name of a person or people in the Old Testament, glossed “Hivite”. It occurs 25 times.

Definition

Someone descended from Hiv(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at Gen.10.17; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577)
§ Hivite = "villagers"
6th generation of descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham, who were living in northern Canaan near Mount Hermon at the time of the conquest

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVhivites (16), hivite (9)
BSBhivites (23), hivite (2)

Verses

Every verse with Chivvi, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

2 Samuel

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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